Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

XY Tang, S Wu, D Wang, C Chu, Y Hong… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) miniature structures cultured in vitro produced from
either human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) or adult stem cells (AdSCs) derived from …

Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

Advances in organ-on-a-chip engineering

B Zhang, A Korolj, BFL Lai, M Radisic - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of drugs before human clinical trials is at the heart of drug screening
and discovery processes. The cost of drug discovery is steadily increasing owing to the …

Inherited retinal diseases: linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities

N Schneider, Y Sundaresan, P Gopalakrishnan… - Progress in retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically complex and heterogenous group of visual
impairment phenotypes caused by pathogenic variants in at least 277 nuclear and …

Vascularized human cortical organoids (vOrganoids) model cortical development in vivo

Y Shi, L Sun, M Wang, J Liu, S Zhong, R Li, P Li… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Modeling the processes of neuronal progenitor proliferation and differentiation to produce
mature cortical neuron subtypes is essential for the study of human brain development and …

Disease modeling in stem cell-derived 3D organoid systems

D Dutta, I Heo, H Clevers - Trends in molecular medicine, 2017 - cell.com
Organoids are 3D in vitro culture systems derived from self-organizing stem cells. They can
recapitulate the in vivo architecture, functionality, and genetic signature of original tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomic comparison of human fetal retina, hPSC-derived retinal organoids, and long-term retinal cultures

A Sridhar, A Hoshino, CR Finkbeiner, A Chitsazan… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
To study the development of the human retina, we use single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-
seq) at key fetal stages and follow the development of the major cell types as well as …

Modeling G2019S-LRRK2 sporadic Parkinson's disease in 3D midbrain organoids

H Kim, HJ Park, H Choi, Y Chang, H Park, J Shin… - Stem Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
Recent advances in generating three-dimensional (3D) organoid systems from stem cells
offer new possibilities for disease modeling and drug screening because organoids can …

Modeling human diseases with induced pluripotent stem cells: from 2D to 3D and beyond

C Liu, A Oikonomopoulos, N Sayed, JC Wu - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The advent of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) presents unprecedented
opportunities to model human diseases. Differentiated cells derived from iPSCs in two …

Retinoblastoma from human stem cell-derived retinal organoids

JL Norrie, A Nityanandam, K Lai, X Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma is a childhood cancer of the developing retina that initiates with biallelic
inactivation of the RB1 gene. Children with germline mutations in RB1 have a high …